Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,179, Amaziah Goodwin, N.H.

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Goodwin, Amaziah
S 29179
B.L.W. 24752-160-55
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11.959 Maine
Amaziah Goodwin
York Co in the State of Me.
who was a Private in the Comp.
Captain Yeaton of the Reg.
Bartlett in the N.
for 11 mos. P. 34
inscribed on the Roll of Maine
the rate of 38 Dollars 33 Cents per ann.
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of July 1833 and sent to
Maj. B. Palmer Kennebec
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $76.66
Pemi-ant. allowance ending Sept. 19.16
$95.82
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk,
Book 2 Vol. 1 Page 18

Copies of papers sent to Honk P Duncalf Jan 8. 1844. Arthur McArthur
July 20/60.
Feb 18, '64 John San, M.C., 36th April 4 Pensioner " " " Pension agent to increase pension to 138.33 per ann the increase being Jan'y 1. 1864 as per act April 11. 1862
Reg 8 Mar 55-166898

166-898-act Mar 3 | 05
June 14 | 35
Amaziah Goodwin mi aged 2 years
Capt. Emerson
N. H. Neil; Revolutionary
M 24
Pensioner
Rev: Dar
10:160 ac, May 8/56
June 32-1859 B. H. B.
Vol 4. Page 97
Freeman Gilman Saco Maine

United States of America
Maine District
At a special District Court of the United States began and held at Kennebec within and for said District on the seventh day of August AD 1832
Before the Honorable Asahel Ware Judge of said Court Amariah Goodwin of a resident of Symmes in the County of York and State of Maine, aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832
That he served as herein after stated, in the revolutionary war that in the year 1776 or 1777 an not certain which, in some part in the state of New Hampshire where entered in a company of militia, commanded by Captain Moses Gustin of Somersworth, & Lieutenant Thomas Walford, he marched to Portsmouth N.H. where he entered for thirty months and served the time out and was discharged.
afterwards he cannot recollect the year (but it was the same year Major Andre was hanged) at Somersworth aforesaid. He enlisted in a company of Militia, commanded by Captain Samuel Emerson, and Lieutenant Dinkham, ensign George Burnham. Regiment commanded by Col Bartlett. - The company marched to West Point, - where we remained until the expiration of the term, for which he enlisted, being eight
half months, where he was discharged as he was born in Somersworth aforesaid on the 16 th day of February 1759, was consequently of this age. He lived in Somersworth at the time he entered the service, soon after his return he removed to said Symmes where he has ever since resided
He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
Amariah Goodwin
sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid
and now the said Court is satisfied that it is as above mentioned affidavit
Asahel Ware
Judge of the United States District Court
And now the said Court do hereby certify that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the within named applicant was a revolutionary soldier as he states
I John Mufsey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Amariah Goodwin for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this seventeenth day of August A.D. 1832
John Mufsey Clerk

I Amariah Goodwin a revolutionary soldier of Lyndon in the county of Graft aged now nearly seventy four years testify and declare in explanation of my declaration of my declaration before Judge Ware in order to obtain a pension under the law of the 7th of June 1832, made on the 7th of August in said year -
That in relation to my services at Portsmouth N.H. in Capt Geytons as set forth in my said declaration, I know of no living witness by whom my services can be proved, I have made diligent inquiry for some one of the company in order to prove my services - Capt Geyton and the other officers of the company I know are dead - and I have not been able to find any or hear of any single member of the company living, except myself - I entered for and served three full months in Capt Geytons company as I stated in my first declaration, I was a part of the time stationed in Portsmouth and some part of the time at Kittery in Maine on the eastern side of the river directly opposite to Portsmouth - We were engaged in erecting works of defence at those places and in sinking the hull of an old vessel or two in the channel of the river, as a defence to the harbor and town - I again repeat that I was three months in this service -
In the year of the capture of Major Andre as I stated in my declaration before Judge Ware I enlisted in Capt Emersons company in Col Bartletts Regiment - I entered in that company for Three months and was stationed as I have stated at West Point, I served three and a half months in Capt Emersons company at West Point - I was then drafted or voluntarily enlisted and went to a place called Stony Point twelve miles below West Point - I was under the command of

of one Ensign Sinclair who had the charge of about thirty men from the same Regiment with myself. There were some artillery men at that place when we arrived and we were engaged principally in repairing the works of defence at that place and remounting the cannon which Genl. Arnold had previously caused to be dismounted. This service was commenced about the last of October immediately after Genl. Arnold deserted to the British which circumstance happened I think in the fore part of the same month. I continued in this service until the April following and was discharged after having served at Stony Point Five months . I was three and a half months in Capt Emersons company as before stated and three months in Capt Gistons company making in all Eleven months and half in the service.
I was probably something more than five months at Stony Point and perhaps some days more than three months at each of the other places, but if eleven months at West Point but in computing my pay I claim no more than Eleven months and half .
I cannot say what rolls we were on at Stony Point we had no forage master captain Sinclair was our principal officer, and at the time we went from West Point to Stony Point we did not expect to be detained so long we were designed only as a guard until other troops could be raised and sent there - but were not discharged until some time in April following. I know of no testimony not hereunto annexed that I can obtain in support of this service. At the time of this

and all my other services I rendered in the store of New Hampshire - but for the last fifty years have resided in Maine -
Amosiah Goodwin
State of Maine
York ss - June 18-1873 - Then personally appeared Amosiah Goodwin of Saco in said county and made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him signed -
Before me
Benjamin Palmer justice of the Peace

State of Maine. County of York, ss. Jeremiah Brabury, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of York, hereby certify that Barnabas Palmer is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, and that the within signature, purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court at Pleas for said State, this Twenty Fifth day of June, Anno. Domini 1832.
Jere. Brabury Clerk Inst. Court York Co.

State of Maine, } ss. County of York }
On this ninth day of June A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace within and for the county and State aforesaid, Amariah Goodwin aged ninety two years, a resident of Lyman, in the State of Maine, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical Amariah Goodwin, who was private in the company commanded by Captain Samuel Emerson in the Regiment of Infantry, commanded by Colonel Bartlett in the war of the Revolution. That he enlisted at Somersworth, New Hampshire, on or about the fifth day of July A.D. 1880. for the term of three months, and continued in actual service in said war for the term of fourteen days, and was honorably discharged at West Point, New York, on or about the fifth day of October A.D. 1880. He further declares that for said service, together with other services performed by him in said war, that he now draws a pension from the United States Government, as per his certificate No. 11959. under the act of June 7th 1832; and he refers to his proofs and papers, now on file, in the War Department.
He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855. He also declares that he has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor.
Amariah this X Goodwin Mark

We Edward Stites and Noah Goodwin, residents of Saco, in the State of Maine, upon our oaths declare, that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Amariah Goodwin in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that he is the identical person he represents himself to be.
Edward Stites Noah Goodwin
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, - that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Samuel V. Loring, Justice of the Peace.
Tristram Gilman, Agent, Saco, Maine.

N.Y.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
D.F. 29 179
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Amasa Goodwin a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1776 or 1777 3 mos. Moses Yeaton N.H.   1780 3 1/2 mos. Samuel Emerson Bartlett   1780 5 mos. Ensign Sinclair as a guard  
Battles engaged in, _____ Residence of soldier at enlistment, Somersworth N.H. Date of application for pension, Aug. 7/1832 His cl. was al. Residence at date of application, Lyman Park Co Me. Age at date of application, b. at Somersworth N.H. Feby 16. 1759 Remarks: No data as to family
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Amariah Fordwin Maine
Free
Hon. George L. Whiting Comm ee of Pensions Washington D.C.

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Station Office, April. 28 th 1856.

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L. P. Waldo Esq.
Com te of Pension
Washington
DC.
166.898

January 14, 1929.
Mrs. C. N. Wakefield, 3080 McKenzie Avenue, Fresno, California.
Madam:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 29179 , it appears that Amaziah Goodwin was born February 16, 1759 in Somersworth, New Hampshire.
While residing in Somersworth, New Hampshire he enlisted in 1776 or 1777 and served three months as a private in Captain Moses Yeaton's New Hampshire Company.
In 1780, three and one half months, private, in Captain Samuel Emerson's Company, Colonel Bartlett's New Hampshire Regiment and five months as a guard under Ensign Sinclair in the New Hampshire Troops.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 7, 1832 while a resident of Lyman, York County, Maine.
There are no data as to family.
Due to the very large number of inquiries similar to yours and the lack of a clerical force available for

the purpose. the bureau is unable to make immediate reply to each request pertaining to soldiers of the Revolution and War of 1812.
Letters are being answered as rapidly as possible in the order of receipt.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.

December 24, 1906.
Hon. Amos L. Allen, House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Allen:
In response to your personal inquiry of the 22nd instant, I have the honor to advise you that the papers in Sur. File No. 29,179, show that Amaziah Goodwin was born February 16, 1759 at Somersworth, N. H., where he enlisted in 1776 or 1777 and served three months as a Private in Capt. Veaton's Co.; again enlisted in 1780 and served eight  five and one-half months as Private under Capt. Samuel Emerson's Co., Col. Bartlett's regiment, N. H. troops.
The soldier moved from Somersworth to Lyman, Maine soon after his service and was still alive and a resident of York county, Maine in 1860. Date of his death not  now shown. No family data.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Fresno Calif -
Dec 28 th 1928
To Pension Com. Washington D.C -
Dear Sir -
Sometime in Nov. I wrote your dept. for service record of one Amiziah Goodwin a Revolutionary Ancestor, as I have received no reply possibly I did not give you adequate information so that you were able to trace the matter - Said Amiziah Goodwin was born in Somersworth N.H. Feb. 16 - 1763 -

His wife was Mary B. Goodwin born in Dover, N.H., died Sept 12-1860-
I wish especially to get his Regiment number if possible or some service record to fill out a paper that will enable me to join the D. A. R.-s
I am a great grand daughter.
Am enclosing a letter from Boston referring me to your dept.
If any fee is required, please let me know.
Very truly -
(Mrs C. H.)
Susie B. Wakefield

a letter from Commonwealth Mass. to her related that this virgin had stated her ancestor was living with James Goodwin in Lyman Me. in 1840 aged 97. Letter re- turned to Mrs. Wakefield 6/81

Ans Nov 24 '28
Fresno, California
Nov 23-1928
To Pension Commissioner Washington D.C.
Dear Sir -
I am seeking some data of a Revolutionary Ancestor to enable myself to become a member of D. G. R. Amariah Goodwin - was living with James Goodwin in Lyman Maine in 1840. He was a pensioner at 77 yrs of age - Died June 22-1863 - age 100 yrs - 4 mo. I wish to learn his regiment - and if possible date of enlistment, anything you may have relative to service will be interesting. He had some correspondence with Secretary of State of Massachusetts. Who has referred me to you (om)

department.
If any remuneration is due for this service please inform me -
Very truly Yours -
Mrs C. N. Wakefield 3060 McKenzie ave. Fresno. Calif

23 College Avenue, Medford, Mass.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Sir:-
I am desirous of obtaining information such as the Pension Agency may have in regard to Amaziah Goodwin, a relative of mine who I am told served in the Revolutionary Army and was a pensioner. He was born at Somersworth, New Hampshire.
Thanking you for your kindness, I am,
Respectfully,
William Wardwell

CONGRESSIONAL.
No. _____
NAME OF CLAIMANT:
P. O.
NAME OF SOLDIER:
Co. _____, Reg't
Goodwin, Revolutionary soldier lived in Maine, Alfred, York Co. about 1862-3 or 4. I think his name was Amariah. My record facts about him wanted
Amos L. Allen McG. U. S. S. Dec. 22, 1906
These slips are exclusively for the use of Senators in Congress, and when used by any other person will not receive consideration.
Senators will greatly aid the Bureau of Pensions in giving them an early answer, if they will fill and use these slips in making calls in pension cases.
V. Warner = Commissioner.

March 17. 1903.
Please give me information in regard to the service of Eben Farnham, a revolutionary soldier , whose widow Lydia Farnham, living with her son Aaron Farnham at St. Johnsbury, Vt., received a pension in 1840.
Also of Amariah Goodwin , a revolutionary soldier who lived with James Goodwin at Lyman, Maine and who received a pen.

since in 1840.
Yours truly, Barrie A. Estes.
To the Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Address Barrie A. Estes, Assessors' Office, City Hall, Cambridge, Mass.

29 179 Rev y INVALID.
File No. 29 179
Alma mater - Fitchburg
Rev Rev. Me
Act: June 7 th 1891
Index: Vol. 9, Page 158
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Mar. 24-1903 A 6 Carrie A. Bates Cambridge Mass
1906 Dec 24 History to Hon. Amos G. Allen. M.P.M. 1914 July 10 Hist. to Mr. Parsons 1929 Jan. 14 Hist. to Mrs. C. H. Wakefield A. N. Y.

Tipton
John Allen
for
Amaziah Goodwin
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I John Allen of Waterborough in the County of York & State of Maine aged Seventy four years do testify and say that the same year Major Andre was taken, and executed I do not now recollect the year I enlisted in Dover in the State of New Hampshire into a company of Militia, commanded by Capt Samuel Emerson. Lieutenant Parkham and ensign George Burdick. I enlisted for eight months. - Amariah Goodwin now a resident of Lyman, was a soldier in said company the company marched to West Point, where we remained until the expiration of said term and were both discharged - I know said Goodwin served the full eight months  attest George Hurrey  John Big X Allen mark
District of Maine ss. August 7 th 1832. Sworn to and subscribed in open Court  Asahel Worr
Judge of the P. C. for the dist. of Maine
August 7. 1832 I hereby certify that the above named John Allen is a person of truth & veracity & that full faith is due to his declarations under oath  George Hurrey Justice of the Peace

George
Disposition for - Amosiah Goodwin.

I George Hussey of Kennebec in the County of York and State of Maine Councillor at law testify and declare that I was employed by Amosiah Goodwin a revolutionary soldier of Lyman in said County to obtain testimony of living witnesses, if any could be found in support of his claims and services to a pension, for services performed by him in the revolutionary war.
I went to the State of New Hampshire in the month of November last to the Town of Somersworth where said Amosiah Goodwin formerly resided and from whence he went into the Army. I found from inquiry of aged people that Capt Moses Yeaton the person whom Goodwin describes as commanding his company, was formerly a resident of said Somersworth and commanded a company as set forth in said Goodwin's Declaration before Judge Wore on the 7th of August last, but had been dead some twenty or thirty years. I saw and conversed with a son of said Capt Yeaton now apparently seventy five years of age - he knew or rather recollected Amosiah Goodwin, and of his having been in the service in the company under the command of his (Yeaton's) late father but as he was not himself in said service under his father could give no particular account of it. He well recollected Goodwin as formerly a resident of said Town and the story of his having been a soldier in the revolutionary war as before alluded to. I could find no person that served with Goodwin in the army.
I was informed by said Yeaton that the officers of his late father's company were all dead, and besides Amosiah Goodwin he did not know of a single individual living of the whole company, which company was  all of which were raised in Somersworth and the vicinity. I understood that Yeaton with whom I conversed understood was before the close of the war himself an officer in the Army - and the service here alluded to as performed by Goodwin was at Portsmouth in the State of New Hampshire soon after the commencement of the war. landed
George Hussey
State of Maine June 27-1833 Personally appeared George Hussey Esq. of Kennebec in said County of York and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed and I certify that said Hussey is a credible witness. Before me - Barnabas H. Hussey Justice of the Peace

No 2768
Amariah Goodwin
No 21
of President of Maine Services in - New Hampshire
1780 in Fm d Eirena 6 o Marlet Ky ent d 9 July 1780 dis d 26 Oct serv d 3 m s 18 days
Adm c
11 1/2 mos
$ 38.30
Major B. Palmer Kennebec Me

We John Garrison of Lyndon in the county of York and Henry Smith of Alfred in said county clergymen hereby certify that we are acquainted with Amosiah Goodwin of Lyndon an applicant for a pension under the late law of Congress and we believe him to be of the age he represents in his declaration namely Seventy four years or nearly Seventy four years old that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and we fully concur in the opinion that he was a soldier in the revolutionary war as he has stated in his declaration before Judge Ware and additional declaration on the 18th day of June 1833 before Amosiah Ware Esq and we will add that his general character for truth is where he is known undoubted -
June 20 th 1833
John Garrison Henry Smith
State of Maine
York ss June 20 th 1833 Then personally appeared before me John B. Dorr the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the county of York Rev John Garrison of Lyndon in said county and made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him signed and I certify that the said John Garrison is a respectable clergyman John B Dorr Justice of the Peace
York ss June 25 th 1833 Then personally before appeared the above named Henry Smith of Alfred County and State aforesaid and made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed and I further certify that he is a respected clergyman
Arch d Smith Jr Justice of the Peace

State of Maine.
County of York, ss. I, Jeremiah Bradbury, Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of York, hereby certify that John P. Porter and Archibald Smith Jr. are Justices of the Peace within and for said County, and that the within signatures, purporting to be theirs, are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said State, this Twentieth Fifth day of June, Anno. Domini 1863.
Jere. Bradbury Clerk of Jud. Court York Co.

Knoxville June 30 1857
Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir I forward the papers of William Clark and Amosiah Goodwin applicants for Pension under the late law. These papers were returned from the Department in October last I hope they will now be satisfactory - living witnesses cannot be found of the service of either - Please to examine and report to you at the Dept
Barabas Palmer
I have not heard from the cases of
Joseph Hutton sent a Dft about first of May 1853
Jedidiah Gooch (Mary his widow), sent 10 June 1853
Amosiah Goodwin } The two now inclosed William Clark
Please to examine and report all as soon as convenient and at the same time if possible - Hutton was sent a Dft in May - lost B. P.

Washington
Dec 29. 1843.
Sir, I called to day at the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives and was informed by him, that the papers in the case of Annaziah Goodwin were sent to the Pension office.
Will you please furnish me with the original papers or copies of the same, and oblige
Yours
Very Respectfully
H. C. Schenck
J. L. Edwards, Esq.

Linington, Maine, January 9 1860.
Sir,
Mr. Amariah Goodwin of York County Maine, is a Revolutionary Pensioner under Act 7 June 1832 at $38.33 c per annum, paid at Maine agency He is 97 years of age. He alleges that the computation of his pension under 7 June 1832 is erroneous and that six months service was not allowed him be- cause he failed to adduce evidence at the time. and that that six months service was as follows Viz " that after our company under Captain " Emerson of N.H. Continental were discharged at " West Point in October 1780, it was desired that some " men were to be retained and we were informed " that men would be drafted unless they would " volunteer; that a company volunteered from the " Newhampshire troops of which I was of the " number; we formed a company commanded " by Ensign Sinclair of Deerfield or Hampton N.H. " and were immediately marched to Stoney Point " to guard the fort; when we arrived we " found a few Artillery men; we went there " about the middle of October and remained " there about three months when some conti- -nental troops were sent to relieve us; we were

then marched to Peekskill; our number was some men besides the Ensign; at Peekskill we guarded some military stores and some prisoners; we remained at Peekskill about two months and were marched to Springfield, Massa- chusetts to guard military stores; we re- mained at Springfield about one month and were relieved by another guard and dismissed; the whole service after my discharge at West Point was six months, for which I have never been paid, and for which time I have never been pensioned!
He says his service under Captain Yeaton & other officers for defense of sea board and called out on frequent alarms and his service at West Point to time of his discharge was enough to make up $38.33 & hence he infers as there was not any rolls of this six months service that he was never allowed for it. He was pensioned July 15 1833.
Although I have no doubt the six months service was performed, yet he may be mistaken in believing it was not allowed & I ask you to confer the favor upon him to inform him for what service he was allowed in making the computation of $38.33 in order to save the old man the expense & delay of prosecu- ting his claim to discover his error.
I hope it may not be inconsistent with the rules

of your office to afford me this information and should it so be, that this might be considered an exception in the case of an old man prosecuting a claim without doc- umentary evidence to sustain it & who has outlined the traditional evidence of his day & also in as much as he gives you the facts of his case in advance of the information.
Hon George C. Whiting, Comm. of Pensions, Washington D. C.
I am very respectfully Yours O b Sec t Arthur W. Atkin

166. 898
Nutram Gilman - agt Saco, Me

United States of America.
MAINE DISTRICT, SS.
FIRST CIRCUIT.
OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. }
I, George F. Emery, Clerk of the
CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,
Within and for said MAINE DISTRICT, certify that
Samuel Loring was on the 9th
day of June 1855 Acting Justice of the Peace,
Within and for the County of York in the State of Maine: that he is when was DULY COMMISSIONED AND QUALIFIED to act as such; when was is fully authorized to administer oaths and take acknowledgements, and that EACH SIGNATURE appended to the papers hereunto annexed, purporting to be his, is GENUINE.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said Circuit Court, this
eleventh day of June
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty- five
Geo. F. Emery
CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, U. S., FOR MAINE DISTRICT.